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Originally Posted by Grits
(3) The most recent Icon of their breeding program, DEEP IMPACT is another sired by Sunday Silence. This one couldn't lose, the greatest thing since rice. He was shipped to France last October, where he went off at near even money in the Arc de Triomphe.
The entire country, it appeared, was in the stands and on the rail, to watch their champion. Their screams turned silent as they watched him beaten by the great French turf trainer, Andre Fabre's, RAIL LINK, who on that day I had wagered to win. Deep Impact finished a disappointing third, and days later, it was announced he tested POSITIVE for an illegal drug.
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So did you actually attend the Arc, and see the throngs of Japanese fans and hear their screams? Because if you didn't where did you get that information? I thought the point of your response was that the Japanese are still learning from us about horse racing. Why then would you seem to take such delight in recounting both the number and sadness of the Japanese fans? Was that somehow the wrong thing to do, to travel to Paris to cheer for their hero? Was your winning wager somehow sweeter because you knew how disappointed those people were?
No Deep Impact didn't win that race, and who knows why he raced on the lead anyway. But its only fair to mention that as shattered as the Japanese fans dreams were for their hero, they weren't as bad off as the fans of the reigning Arc champion and at that time current #1 ranked horse in the world Hurricane Run who was badly beaten that day by Deep Impact. Did you happen to notice their silence, or were you only focused on the sadness of the Japanese fans?
Or how about another failure on that day, the leading charge of trainer Andre Fabre, Shirocco? Surely there were pockets of German backers of Shirocco that were crushed.
No non-European horse has ever won the Arc. I think they took a big risk and were very sporting to give it a go. That they found trace amounts of a drug in his system that is legal in Japan I file under the heading "What a Shocker!"
Anyway I somehow doubt that we are the model to follow or learn from when it comes to drugs in horses.